State legislators call for revoking Energy Transfer’s pipeline permits, after leaks, spills
State legislators representing five House districts and three Senatorial districts in Chester County have signed a letter to secretary Patrick McDonnell of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, secretary Dr. Rachel Levine of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, and Chairwoman Gladys Brown Dutrieuille of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission calling for an immediate halt...
COVID-19 Update: Presumed Positive tests hold at 6 in Chesco
Updated, Wednesday, 2:45 p.m.: Adds new county numbers, new state numbers.
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
As Chester County residents hunker down and attempt to weather the COVID-19 pandemic, there were more indications of the growth of virus infections locally and statewide, Wednesday.
As the county number of infections grew to 9 — up three from the day before — the statewide number of...
Iowa? New Hampshire? How about Pennsylvania being first for a change?
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
So….does anyone know the outcome of the Iowa Caucus?
In truth, does it actually matter?
Which leads to this point: it’s time for Iowa and, frankly, New Hampshire, to take a back seat on this first-in the nation primary/caucus crap.
Truthfully, a state that often finds itself with a meaningless primary should really be first.
Pennsylvania.
Hey, it is where...
Sunday Punch: Shut down Mariner East II, for good
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Would you allow a five-year-old to run amuck in your neighborhood with a grenade? I’d like to think not, as the odds of it ending well are pretty small.
So, allowing Sunoco/Energy Transfer Partners, a corporation who acts nearly as responsibly as a five-year-old, to continue building a pipeline across Chester County, near homes, schools and retirement communities...
Dinniman, Comitta headline WC clean energy event
State Sen. Andy Dinniman (D-19) speaks Wednesday night as State Rep. Carolyn Comitta (D-156) looks on at a clean energy event sponsored by PennEnvironment. Photo courtesy PennEnvironment: by Garen Meguerian
WEST CHESTER — Wednesday night, PennEnvironment was joined by state Sen. Andy Dinniman, State Rep. Carolyn Comitta, West Chester Mayor Dianne Herrin, and West Chester University Director of...
Dinniman lauds start of Sonoco site redevelopment
Neal Fisher, Vice President of Development for the Hankin Group; Senator Dinniman; Mike Malloy, General Counsel for the Hankin Group; and Don Vymazal, Senator Dinniman’s Government Relations Director; tour the site of the former Sonoco Paper Mill in Downingtown.
DOWNINGTOWN — State Senator Andy Dinniman recently joined officials from the Hankin Group to tour the site of the former Sonoco paper...
Dinniman secures funding for Boy Scout facility
Sen.Andy Dinniman (center) meets with members of Cub Scout Pack 637, Boy Scout Troops 619 and 23, and Venture Crew 610. Also pictured are Charles Rogers, Executive Director of the Chester County Council of the Boy Scouts of America (far left) and Craig Sims, Field Director of the Chester County Council of the Boy Scouts of America (far right).
WEST CHESTER — State Senator Andy Dinniman recently...
Candidate Q&A: Andy Dinniman, 19th Senate District
Andy Dinniman
Editor’s Note: Once again, we posed the same nine questions to our legislative candidates and offered to publish them without edits or modification to allow our readers to get an unfiltered view of their positions on some of the top issues of the day in Pennsylvania. We will run the answers of all of the candidates for a given race at the same time — assuming all have responded.
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Endorsements: Malloy, Dinniman for state Senate
Although the headlines from the national race have grabbed the headlines, we in Pennsylvania stand at a crossroads: the state’s finances are broken, we continue struggle to manage to pay for road and bridge and repairs, policing and education. Pensions continue to strangle the state budget and boost local property taxes.
Our state legislature continues to be exceptionally dysfunctional and overly...
Democrats play their Trump card and hard
Ads start to go negative, too, shockingly
By Mike McGann, Editor, The Times
Last week, in this space I noted that Democratic candidates would be looking to staple their Republican opponents to GOP presidential nominee Donald J. Trump.
Based on a flurry of TV ads and mailers I’ve seen this week, I had it mostly right, except maybe the implement: Democrats are using a nail gun, and one has to wonder...
